The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-04-14
wAsHINGroN, d. G. April 10, 1887
EDITOR HERALD;

WASHINGTON, d. G. April 10, 1887.
EDITOR HERALD;
The Interstate Commerce law went into
effect on last Tuesday and the first official
act of the Commission on that day was the
selection of a permanent home in Washing
ton. They chose the fifth story of the new
Baltimore Sun building on # street. 1t Is an
eight story structure with a white marble
front and is one of the handsomest in the
city. It's location is central, being midway
between the uptown and downtown Gov
eminent Departments. Each Commissioner
will have a spacious apartment for his own
use and another will be set aside for an au.
dienc chamber.
Although the railroad companies. so far as
in their power, have arranged their schedule
Of transportation to conform to the provi.
sions Of the new law, many points of doubt.
full Interpretation remain to be determined
upon before the law can be made operative.
The board OF Commissioners is a judicial as
as well as ministerial tribunal, and when
the law fails of clearn eSs and intelligibility,
the Commissioners must decide as to its
meaning and their rulings, for the time be-
ing, have all the force for legislative amend.
ments. .r...-- .. ..
The Commissioners have wide discreet ion
also with regard TO the "long and short haul
business" After hearing arguments on the
petition of the Southern Railway and Steam
ship Association TO suspend temporarily the
provisions Of that section of the act, their
first ruling was to suspend for ninety days
the 'long and short haul clause" SO far as
concerns the road lines of the petitioners.
AS wise and conservative men, having the
business interests of the country at heart,
the Commissioners will avoid hasty and ar
bitrary action where another course is prac.
ticable. In the natural order of things much
time must ensue before the changes provid-
ed for can be accomplished facts, and no
great commercial revolution will be wrought
Commission will start on q trip south to
further consider the subject of applying the
| "long and short haul clause to the lines OF
the Association, and to receive evidence PRO
and con. On April Goth 1t will convene in
Atlanta, then In Mobile and New Orleans,
reaching Memphis the 4th of May.
The most novel:e, emit which will happen
in Washington this year will be the Nation.
to Drill during the last week in May. The
m anagers of the affair predict that 1t will
unquestionably be the greatest spectacle in
| thesway of massing superb, civic, military
companies the world has ever seen. Mill
tary displays are always popular.
Whether paraded In peace or exhibited
| in conflict, the gay uniforms, the FURNISHED
arms, the martial music, the shrili piping OF
the fifes, the rattling drums, the ..heroic
voices of the bugles" the flying banners. the
prancing steeds, and the ghostly city of tents
! all appeal to the senses and sperit of the PEG.
pie.
State and other local drills have been held
at different places, some of them meeting
with signal success, but no National drill has
ever before been attempted, and one could
not by carried out elsewhere than at the
| Capital.
| The affairs Of the coming drill have excel
leptly managed. Several weeks ago the COM